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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > Looking for the Best Fluff Writing
 
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StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

 This is a thread where you tell me about which tabletop games have the best fluff and setting writing. I'm a nerd who doesn't have friends play these group-oriented games, but drat if I don't love flipping through Nobilis or Eclipse Phase and reading about the setting of these wildly creative games. I love treating these things as tourist guides to exotic places that I can't travel to, and enjoying the sometimes-good short stories packed inbetween pages and pages of rules.

So, I turn to you, in the hopes that you'll enjoy typing words about this subject: which tabletop rpg lines have the best fluff? Which ones would you rec to someone who just wants to read about a wild place? Planescape comes to mind, as do almost all of the White Wolf/Obsidian Path type games: they're good at filling in their universes.

This is also an area where a cool metaplot is something I'm looking for, too - a bunch of mages nuked India to shut down a super vampire and now it's changed the entire setting of Wraith? Yes please, tell me about these happenings.

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